Dr. Trina Helderman, one of the fellows, training community health workers in South Sudan Bringing together the cumulative resources of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH), our international emergency medicine fellowship (IEMF) was established in 2006. A two-year program with a total of four IEM fellows, the fellowship trains emergency physicians in international emergency medicine through public health education and in-field experience abroad in international health and disaster mitigation and management. The fellowship prepares leaders in international health by developing academic, clinical, and administrative skills in international medicine and awards a Masters of Public Health degree under the Program of Forced Migration and Health. The fellows work in a variety of settings including disaster response, humanitarian assistance, and systems development in low and middle-income countries. In only the last few years they have worked in:
The programs fall into these tracks:
- System Development
- EM Trainer of Trainers
- EMS Development
- Disaster Mitigation
- Direct Clinical Service Delivery - EM/Tropical Medicine
- Humanitarian Relief
- Disaster Response
- Humanitarian Crisis - Complex Emergencies
- Development
- WHO projects
- Working with Ministries of Health/Governments
For more information on the fellowship, click on the side tabs; for more information on the different projects that the fellows have worked on, click on one of the above countries.
